PureFusion Drum Brass Color Guard

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
275410556
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2013–2013
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2013, Form 990-N 2012
Location
Lexington, MA, USA
Phone
7817105167
Rating confidence
Limited
Sector
Singing, Choral

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$59,325
Expenses
$48,265
Assets
$33,057

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

2 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • JENNIFER HIGGINS (PRESIDENT)
  • E SCOTT HISER (VICE PRESIDENT)

People named in this filing

  • JENNIFER HIGGINS (PRESIDENT)
  • E SCOTT HISER (VICE PRESIDENT)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2013. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

Perfusion percussion is an educational music and movement, sport of the arts, program. Through the medium of pagentry, more particularly competetive marching arts, the students develop leadership qualities, teamwork skills, sportsmanship, integrity, dedication, self-discipline and social development, all emphasized through the challenges and excitement in the pursuit of excellence.

What it reported doing in 2013

They won awards for the percussion world championships and trumbull percussion regional finalists.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.

The verdict

- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 53
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: Limited
  • Program expense ratio: Limited

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 18.6%; rating input score 75; 75th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.68; rating input score 38; 38th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 2 people listed
  • Consistency: 5 of 6 current checks pass · 1 finding to review
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

Grant-readiness screening is separate from the live rating, not a measure of program quality. Review the source records before making a grant decision.

  • Moderate — Transparency & Controls: Part I part ii net assets crosscheck did not reconcile in the filed values.
  • Moderate — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 38/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 57/100.
  • High — Grant Readiness: Automatic revocation: this organization had its federal tax-exempt status automatically revoked.